| Aeolus451 said: How many times did I say that I didn't say nintendo's IP were niche and yet, you kept saying that i was saying that their IPs are niche. I was pretty crystal clear about it repeatedly. I think that some of you are just skimming through what people post and fixate on the certain phrases or words then assume what the rest of their post says based on those small bits. Oh no, he said nintendo and niche in the same sentence, he must be calling nintendo's games niche. https://www.polygon.com/2016/4/29/11539102/gaming-stats-2016-esa-essential-facts Here's a different source with the same data as the other one but it doesn't have other statistics lumped in. It's not that confusing. The 17% can only fit into one group. It doesn't dispell that the handheld market is shrinking compared to other mobiles and in the overall gaming market. |
Nope I read your post it wasn't well written and your reply didn't help your case either as rather than clarify you asked about 70m sales, you weren't clear as even someone else has pulled up how oddly written your posts are to the point they make litte sense in any context.
The 17% is from 4000 people according to that link which in comparison to total WW hradware sales isn't a real indicator, that part of the data as I thought is asking of frequent use of the devices not purchase. Total portable sales are around 81m for this gen with 3DS and Vita which going by total dedicated gaming platform sales from this site means it makes up around 40% of gaming platforms against 3 other platforms.
Home console market itself has shrunk far more than portables in fact that current 81m of portables is down from the DS/PSP era but still up from the GBA era in fact only the GB and DS/PSP have finished higher than the current gen and with the 3DS still selling and poised to hit around 70m I'd say the market has not shrunk at all but in fact stayed in the same range as it did before. This can't be said for home consoles as this gen is not only looking set to be down from the previous gen but the 2 gens before it, Handhelds never shrunk the gaming market just expanded with new branches.
